Projects that involve damage or disturbance of painted or coated surfaces, as well as development or improvements of existing structures, may involve some level of lead impact regardless of the type, ...

YOUNGSTOWN — With more than 1,000 residential rental properties believed to have lead-based paint, the city is moving forward with creating a board to help enforce the removal of the harmful products.

Dec. 1 (UPI) --A new isotope analysis of 77 paintings created by 27 Dutch artists has revealed subtle differences in a common white pigment that are directly tied to supply routes altered by ...

BALTIMORE -- Maryland's Department of the Environment (MDE) is suing a Baltimore-based company for allegedly using radioactive materials without a license and altering test samples during lead paint ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids is floating stricter rules around lead paint and dust in rental properties in an effort to better protect children from exposure. Under the new, proposed rules, ...

State environmental regulators have opened up another investigation, this time in Baltimore County, after tests confirmed lead-contaminated paint chips are falling from a section of Interstate 95 in ...

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley launched a lead remediation program to reduce lead-based paint hazards in homes in suburban communities. The new Lead Abatement Program will operate under the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule that reduces the level of lead in dust considered hazardous to "any reportable level," which greatly decreases the amount of lead ...

A few years ago, we wrote several editorials about a longstanding problem that was no longer getting the attention it deserved in South Bend: lead poisoning, driven primarily by lead-based paint in ...

Representative soil sample testing done in a Los Angeles County Public Health study found a higher percentage of samples with lead levels above health-based screening thresholds taken from parcels ...